I have a problem with CMsimple Search which has ceased to work for my website
https://www.pvpsi.ch . Why, I don't know? At least I have found a workaround, replacing the faqsimple call with faqsimpleAuto.
I have been using CMsimple for several years (since 2013) currently on 5.4 using my version of the Basic02 template which is well suited to our needs as a non-profit Pensioner Society organizing events for pensioners from a Swiss Research Institute. Recently I discovered that the Search function was no long working and gave a blank page, but a "zero" search did work and reported nothing found. I checked my web pages for errors, tried a test version with the 5.6 Version also tried to rebuild from new. I used modern 2022 Templates, no effect, there must be something wrong with my website. It happened on Mac, Windows and Android browsers.
Searching for a solution, I came across a reference to jQuery, I played with the CMS, setting this to autoload (1) no effect, I even rebuilt the site new for H1only_pagesplitting - no effect.
The website
https://www.pvpsi.ch search function continued to fail to work. In my searches for a solution, I came across a jQuery reference about JavaScript potential problems.
I then remembered a few months back I had added FAQsimple 1.6 to the system and checked the built-in help for reference to JavaScript and came across the following entry:
4.3 Funktion ohne JavaScript "Auto".
I changed the plugin call to {{{plugin:faqsimpleAuto();}}} and immediately the Search procedure worked as it should.
It's OK like this, but I felt you should know there seems to be a problem with the FAQsimple Plugin and the Website Search regardless of version or templates, at least the ones I used.
The workaround solution is to use faqsimpleAuto in my case.
Or is there another factor which I have not discovered yet? Surely Search should work with the other faqsimple calls?
Here is an insecure test server using version 5.6 and a modern template to demonstrates the error in Search with a faqsimple call
http://negweb.ch/cmstest/?Willkommen___FAQs , simply search for anything, like PSI for example.
Thanks for all the work on CMsimple and Plugins.
Neil